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J. HAMMERL.

REFRIGERATOR.

No. 249,929. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

WITNESSES INVENTOR S ATTORNEY NITED STATES Erica.

PATENT JOSEPH HAMMERL, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,929, dated November 22, 1881.

Application filed July To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH HAMMERL, of Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved water-cooling attachment for refrigerators of all kinds, by which the space immediately below the bottom of the ice-chamber and above the door or doors of the preserving-chamber is utilized; and the invention consists of a flat open-top receptacle, which is arranged below the bottom of the ice-chamber, and supported in suitable manner, either permanently or detachably, therein. The receptacle is provided at one corner with an angular extension which abuts against the side wall of the reservoir and serves for filling the receptacle. The dripwater passes from a detachable gutter of the ice-chamber and a connecting-pipe through a recess of the cooler to the drip-pipe. The water is drawn off from the cooler by a suitable faucet passing through the front wall of the reservoir, and connected in such a manner as to admit the removal of the water-cooler.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel represents a perspective view of my improved refrigerator, shown in open position, and with parts broken away so as to show the interior arrangement of the water-cooling attachment. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section Fig. 3, a top View of the same with covers removed; and Fig. 4 is a detail longitudinal section of the cooler and ice-chamber, showing a modified construction of the latter.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a refrigerator of any approved construction, and B the ice-chamber of the same. Below the bottom of the ice-chamber is arranged a flat open-top receptacle, 0, of sheet metal or other suitable material, which is equal in width with the refrigerator, but of slightly less length than the bottom of the icechamber, so as not to be in the way of the chilled air which passes from the ice in the icechamber through the side channels to the preserving-chamber of the refrigerator.

Thewater-coolingattachmentGis made equal in height to the distance of the bottom of the 30, 1881. (No model.)

ice-chamber from the upper edge of the door or doors of the refrigerator, so that it takes up and utilizes the space between the bottom of the ice-chamber and the upper edge of the front door or doors. 'This position of the water-coolin g attachment 0 gives, furthermore, the great advantage that the water therein is cooled more effectively by its close proximity to the bottom surface of the ice-chamber. At one corner of the water-cooling receptacle 0, preferably at one of the front corners, is arranged a rectangular extension, 0, which projects across the air-channel and abuts against the side wall of the refrigerator. This extension 0 serves for conveniently filling the water-cooling receptacle by a pitcher, pail, or otherwise from above. At the rear end of the ice-chamber is arranged a removable gutter, D, which takes up the drip-waterfrom the ice-chamber and conducts it to the drip-pipe D of the refrigerator. The

as shown clearly in Fig. 2, and is either made removable or hinged to the gutter and made removable therewith, as desired, so that the water-coolin g receptacle can be readilycleaned from above. A recess, a, of the water-cooling receptacle 0 encircles the drip-pipe of the gutter D, and prevents any mingling of the dripwater with the water in the receptacle. In case very cold water is desired, the bottom of the ice-chamber is preferably constructed of two inclined parts, which are connected at the center by a transverse gutter, between which and the inclined parts of the bottom airchannels are formed, so that the cold air can be conducted from the ice-chamber onto the surface of the water in the receptacle. The water is drawn off from the cooling-receptacle by any suitable faucet attachment,which passes through the front wall of the refrigerator.

I am aware that water-cooling attachments have heretofore been used with refrigerators,

ber in such a way as to close a portion of the air-conducting channels, or at such a distance from the ice as not to cool the water sufficiently.

My water-cooling receptacle, onthe otherhand,

bottom of the ice-chamber overlaps the gutter,

but they were arranged either in the ice-cham- The bottom of the ice-chamber ofl'ers a large cooling-surface, and prevents any dirt from getting into the water, so that it is kept cool and sweet. As the receptacle is either permanently connected in any suitable manner to the refrigerator or made detachable therefrom, as desired, it can in either case be readily cleaned from time to time, as required, and the Water kept clean and sweet therein. When arranged for chest-refrigerators the water-cooling attachment is placed at the bottom of the iceehamber, and only modified in shape to that construction. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a refrigerator, a water-cooler suspended below the bottom of the ice-chamber, and provided with a corner extension projecting across the air-conducting channel for convenient fill ing, substantially as set forth.

2. In a refrigerator, the combination of an ice-chamber having an inclined bottom and a detachable gutter, with a water-cooling receptacle arranged below the bottom of the icechamber and above the upper edge of the front door or doors, and with a drip-pipe passing 

